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Kenichi Hasegawa was a dairy farmer in Fukushima Prefecture at the time of the March 11, 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, living in a family of eight in Itate village with his parents, wife, children and grandchildren. Iitate is approximately 50 kilometers away from the nuclear site, but quickly became one of the most radioactively More

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